Sunday's Watching Part II
Worlds of Fantasy episode 3, which I believe is the last episode. This is a short UK documentary series on fantasy fiction. The first episode was about children protagonists and talked about C. S. Lewis and Philip Pullman and E. Nesbit and etc. Sort of the history of child protagonists in British fantasy.
The second episode was about Middle Earth and Gormenghast, which I may have misspelled. I like the Lord of the Rings movies okay, but I never did get through one of the books. Zzz. And I'd heard of Gormenghast, but didn't know much about it. Can't say as this episode made me want to rush out and read it either.
This third episode was sort of about fantasy in the last 40 years. It was sort of all over the place. Terry Pratchett, Tolkien again, Neil Gaiman, movies including Pan's Labyrinth, and online fantasy games, which brought it back around to Middle Earth again again.
Notable is that they had interviews.. or whatever you want to call it, where you get a bunch of experts being talking heads.. that included some fantasy writers: Diana Wynne Jones, Neil Gaiman, and China Miéville.